WORLD'S FIRST ADAPTIVE MPEG-4 SLS AUDIO STREAMING TECHNOLOGY PRESENTED

A new audio streaming technology was presented by Exploit Technologies at CES 2010 in Las Vegas last week. You as a consumer no longer have to trade off audio quality with streaming speed, thanks to MPEG4-SLS (Scalable-to-Lossless Coding), the world's first adaptive audio streaming technology using the MPEG-4 SLS audio standard.

SLS is a music coding format developed with major contribution from I2R and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG). This patented music coding format is an MPEG-4 audio standard that is capable of compressing music files (such as CD tracks) for playback without any loss in fidelity.

It also allows for fine-grain pre-encoding of music files at different bit-rates so that they can be subsequently streamed or played back at different quality, depending on the device type or available channel bandwidth.

This allows for uninterrupted music streaming all day round, regardless of bandwidth or internet traffic volume. MPEG-4 SLS's scalability also means that a single encoded file can be played back on different environment with bit-rate cap determined by the service provider.

"When MPEG-SLS was launched a few years ago, there was little interest in the use of this technology. By focusing development on adapting MPEG-4 SLS for streaming audio, a solution is now available to support streaming music services and at the same time pave the way for the future with HD audio. We believe that this innovative adaptive technology could completely change the digital music industry, just as the introduction of MP3 did many years ago," said Philip Lim, Chief Executive Officer of Exploit Technologies.

Adaptive MPEG-4 SLS offers seamless audio streaming that opens a new realm of music entertainment possibilities. Thanks to the technology, high-music entertainment is no longer limited to desk-bound hi-fi systems. MPEG-4 SLS is an attractive format for streaming applications due to its scalability feature. This feature enables a streaming system to respond to network conditions in real time during a streaming session.

The digital distribution of music stands fully ready to become the dominant way in which music will be produced and consumed. Now that consumers have access to millions of soundtracks, the challenge would be to find the music that one really wants to hear, quicker and more accurately. Adaptive MPEG-4 SLS may provide the missing piece to the puzzle for service providers of digital music content.

  Exploit Technologies